Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. The main character of The Secret Agent, Mr Verloc keeps a shop in Londons Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be «a simple tale» proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and Londons fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations.

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. The Return of Sherlock Holmes was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had «died» in «The Final Problem». The first story is set in 1894 and has Holmes returning in London and explaining the period from 1891-1894, a period called «The Great Hiatus» by Sherlockian enthusiasts.

Emily Jane Bronte was an English novelist and poet, the third-eldest of the four surviving Bronte siblings. Wuthering Heights is her only novel. It is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherines father. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.

Charlotte Bronte was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bronte sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. The novel Villette reflects her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Lucy Snowe, the narrator of this book, flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a French boarding school in the great cosmopolitan capital of Villette. Soon Lucys struggle for independence is overshadowed by both her friendship with a worldly English doctor and her feelings for an autocratic schoolmaster. Brontes strikingly modern heroine must decide if there is any man in her society with whom she can live and still be free.

Charlotte Bronte was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bronte sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. The novel Villette reflects her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Lucy Snowe, the narrator of this book, flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a French boarding school in the great cosmopolitan capital of Villette. Soon Lucys struggle for independence is overshadowed by both her friendship with a worldly English doctor and her feelings for an autocratic schoolmaster. Brontes strikingly modern heroine must decide if there is any man in her society with whom she can live and still be free.

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. The White Company is a huge historical novel set during the Hundred Years War. Together with the heroes of this story, you will visit England, France, and Spain, and take part in the events of one of the longest wars in human history.

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. The Stark Munro Letters is an epistolary novel that takes the form of twelve long letters written by J. Stark Munro between March 1881 and November 1884 and sent to his friend Herbert Swanborough. Stark Munro is a recent graduate from medical school, and the letters detail his attempts to create a medical practice in partnership with the brilliant but unorthodox James Cullingworth.

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. The Firm of Girdlestone is a truly fascinating novel that tells a story of a merchant John Girdlestone and his son, Ezra. Their firm is about to collapse, and if they do not do something about it, the name of Girdlestone will be tainted with disgrace.

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. Sir Nigel is a historical novel set during the early days of the Hundred Years War. As a background story to his book "The White Company, " it describes the early life of Sir Nigel Loring in the service of King Edward III at the start of the war.

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. Micab Clarke is a historical adventure novel set in the times of Monmouth Rebellion in England. The book follows the story of an extraordinary man, who starts as a romantic adventurer, but living a difficult life, ends up as a hardheaded soldier of fortune.

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. Mercedes of Castile; or, The Voyage to Cathay is a historical novel by Cooper. The novel is set in 15th century Europe, and follows the preparations and expedition of Christopher Columbus westward to the new world.

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. Tales of Twilight and the Unseen is a collection of short stories filled with supernatural events, horrific scientific experiments, and bizarre events. It is an excellent opportunity to discover another side of authors ability to immerse and surprise. Danger! And Other Stories is a collection of fascinating short stories like "One Crowded Hour, " "A Point of View, " "How It Happened, " "The Prisoners Defence, " and others.

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. The Refugees is another vivid example of the authors love for historical events. It revolves around two characters: Huguenot guardsman Amory de Catinat, and Amos Green, an American who comes to see France. The book also features many famous historical figures and events: the King of France Louis XIVs and his marriage to Madame de Maintenon, the cancellation of the Edict of Nantes and the emigration of the Huguenot de Catinats to America